Outsmart the pain

Migraine is a very challenging situation for many people. Having migraine herself, Celia started to think about how to get better because nothing seemed to work!  Also, she started writing her own story and adding famous historical figures who also had migraine. Was Alice in Wonderland actually an aura.....? Just to throw something intriguing into this episode, I can reveal that we also talk poiso...

Third year!   As a bonus gift for my devoted listeners - here is a Christmas story written by Al Andrews which I by permission was granted to read. It is short, it is one of my favourites and in someway describes how life can be :-)   Now, sit down in your favourite chair, make some Swedish Glögg and listen for a few minutes. If you like it - don´t be a spoiler but tell your friends to listen to i...

Long time no see - but we're back! In this thrilling episode, meet dr Karin Dembrower who uses artificial intelligence to detect breast cancer more efficiently than with humans alone. Published in Lancet. First hospital in the world using the technology in this way. Listen to this exciting work, but also what Karin thinks of AI in the future, how her coworkers have reacted to it....and how they no...

Season 4 is here, maybe long awaited !!    A big Thank You to everyone who is listening and continues to listen to the new episodes. You never know what the next episode will deal with ……   This time - meet Erwin Lindén! A physiotherapist whose exercises I’ve seen on social media make me strain my muscles just watching them. But that’s not why he’s here. Working at a back surgery clinic - what is...

I guess there are lots of recaps of 2022, but no one like this! Because here you get to know about every single episode I published this year. It could be a cheapskate for letting people think you listened to them all. Or a reminder of what you should listen to again.    For anyone interested in pain and it’s treatment. Or interested in anything randomly not related to pain. Because that’s how my...

Third year!   As a bonus gift for my devoted listeners - here is a Christmas story written by Al Andrews which I by permission was granted to read. It is short, it is one of my favourites and in someway describes how life can be.   Now, sit down in your favourite chair, make some Swedish Glögg and listen for a few minutes. If you like it - don´t be a spoiler but tell your friends to listen to it a...

Yet another episode! This time it’s a single one - that’s me talking. Although I give you a hint why I am not particularly fond of seminars, leadership lectures, social media quotes and even TED talks, this is not the main issue at hand. No, I will give you a small glimpse of the intriguing world working with people. Three out of hundreds of patients I meet every year, but they give a special stor...

Björn Rutholm is really an interesting guy. Running the company PixelPappa which wants their coworkers to work from home. By the way please excuse the barking dogs - Í´m working from home.  He does not believe in personality tests before you hire people. He helps teenagers from weapons and gangs back to society. He makes blind kids use Spotify. He thinks healthcare has something to learn. He…..wel...

War and pain. Two really hard subjects which I tried to combine in my last pod . Well, if you thought that was just a bit too difficult to digest - here is the shorter recap! And of course with some perks to it. My own very strange stories to bind it together. Some things you could do to help yourself. And it´s not really that hard. And a short, short marketing thing about the next episode. So you...

Meet Volodymyr Romanenko - Scientific Director at the Ukrainian Medical Academy. He is a physician - a neurologist and pain specialist. So we will talk a bit about neurology and pain. On Ukraine’s journey from being “non-scientific” to having journals, publishing papers and implementing pain knowledge in medical education. But Volodymyr is also Ukrainian. And Ukraine is at war. Hear what he says a...

A short reminder what last week was about. With highlights. And some of my thoughts.  If you don´t have time for the long one - try this one, it´s only 10 minutes. And if you like it, why don´t give the others a try?   Next week - another regular show. On a serious matter. Pain. Ukraine.   

He wanted to become a truck driver but is now an area manager at a hospital, getting high appraisals from coworkers for his exceptional work during the pandemic. And the journey definitely has not ended there. His motto being ‘love and respect’ - are these just empty words? How does this work for his employees? How does he work with difficult issues? He also said Ullared. And then I said omg. Want...

An insight episode - the shorter version with some extras! If you haven’t listened to the last episode about energy you can listen to this short recap to get a glimpse! And I even make a connection to persistent pain. And it’s not ‘lack of energy’ or anything else that obvious. Making you curious? Just 15 minutes of insight. You can do it. 

Season 3 of Outsmart the Pain is finally out there! Energy is on everyone´s mind right now. In Sweden, there is a lot of politics involved in dealing with high prices and what to do about it. But from a non-political view - what is it all about? How are the prices set? What on earth do the Amish have to do with horse power? And how can all energy on earth be nuclear? Many questions answered in thi...

This is a short conclusion + my own thoughts around the last two episodes with psychologist and associate professor Rikard Wicksell. What can be done if "everything has been tried" ? And what can be done in society in the future to get things going, and going better?   This is the last episode for Season 2 - thank you for listening! It has been a great pleasure having you, and I am looking forward...

Part 2 since my talk with Rikard Wicksell was so long. Listen to the previous episode first!   Why are some people not getting better in their pain although healthcare is throwing them all different kind of medication? And society itself, does it do enough in the fight against pain? Well, that was of course a rhethorical question, but what to do about it?   This and a lot more in today´s episode....

Meet clinical psychologist and associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, Rikard Wicksell!   When medication is not the whole solution, or any solution at all, what can you do about your pain (or actually any other condition as well) ? What is the true problem when not reaching the treatment goal? We talk about what the psychologist can do. Is there a "golden" therapy like cognitive behavioural...

Today I will be talking about when somethings seems crazy.    Could be that pain - jumping around the body. Getting worse after that surgery that was supposed to help. Or something else.   Could be the patient. Or at least the doctor (or relatives) think something crazy is going on, because s/he is describing something which can not be understood.   Could be the doctor. Why on earth does s/he reco...

Another episode, another subject.   This time I talk with Henrik, an oncologist and professor who developed the Stockholm 3 test, which seems to revolutionize the prostate cancer screening possibilities in Sweden. That is why he won the award "cancer researcher of 2022". But we do not only talk about this, but about prostate cancer in such.  I had no idea prostate cancer is well abundant in the We...

An interesting but maybe difficult subject on "pill shaming" - there is some shame to taking tablets. Even if you need to, and the physician has prescribed them. The most important thing about this subject is to be able to reason if it is right or not. And not all people - including health care personel - do this reasoning. They already made up their minds. And if a patient "wanting" to take pills...

We physicians give patients pills. And we hope for the best. Sometimes it works, maybe not perfect but it is better than not taking the pills. And we are satisfied with that. But then there is pill shaming. The own feeling that ”this is not good”. And on top of this the surroundings - that is relatives, friends, coworkers and so on, experts on their own who say you should not really take the medic...

Being an anesthetist before I turned 100% pain, I met a lot of different challenges during my time at the ICUs, surgery and more, both in Sweden and in the U.K. I noticed people enjoy these strange stories...so why not make a short episode about this today? There are some sad stories, so keep out of this episode if you don´t want to hear it today. But I also tell you about the guy who tried to swa...

Covid-19 is a word suddenly everyone knows. Everyone has some kind of relationship to it.  Sometimes there is pain related to a covid infection. What type of pain is that? Who suffers from it (at who seem not to get it)? How is it treated? Listen to a this shorter episode when I go through how to deal with it. As always, in an as easy way as possible so you won´t get tired listening to me.... Spre...

By chance, I met this guy Douglas Leon, or Dogge Doggelito who is his rap artist name. He became famous for the Swedish people when he tried to get them to buy refridgerators. And get a bike when they did so. Cykel på köpet. And I didn´t even know he now sings Swedish folklore with other famous Swedes as well! Although his life has been rough, he now seems to be a very positive and happy guy, adap...

An artist most Swedish people know. A multi talented artist who started off with Latin Kings and now does Swedish folklore. And something about selling bikes. Being very spontaneous, our meeting was not very well prepared from my side, so the setting and sound you need to live with.... Apart from music, we talk happiness but go through some serious talks about his wife dying in cancer, the hardshi...